buying a “must have” marketing program for my business because of a quick deadline – and finding out it wasn’t a fit after

deciding on a product budget while planning an exciting and big launch – which required a lot of investment, and didn’t work

I made each of these decisions while caught up in the energy and emotion of the moment. Times of intense energy and heightened emotions have a huge impact on how you think about and react to an opportunity or situation, and can lead to bad decisions, especially when it comes to money.

This is why I have found January to be a horrible time for planning my money and crafting a yearly budget, for both my personal life and business, and why I think managing your money is best left for February.

I had the fabulous opportunity to talk with Paula Gregorowicz as a guest on her Active Entrepreneur Podcast way back in November. For some reason it never dawned on my to share the interview here, on The Secure Entrepreneur Blog, so I am remedying that now and sharing.

Paula’s questions brought out some really great language about my work to help you with your personal and business finances, language that I hadn’t really formulated until I spoke it during the conversation. So, a big thank you to Paula for drawing this language out of me.

Some highlight quotes for me from the podcast (that I will be expanding on more in future writing) were:

Emotions and Following a System

“You work the system in those emotion moments and while the money is coming in. You adapt the system when you’re in those calm, rational, non-emotional, “I can think about this properly” moments.Don’t adapt the system during the one week where you don’t get any invoices paid and you have a bill due and you’re panicking and crying and wondering if you can afford another bottle of whiskey to calm your nerves. That’s not the time to adapt the system. That’s the time to look at the system and go: Forty percent goes here, twenty percent here, and ten
percent here. Once that surge of emotion passes, that’s when you can go: Okay,maybe my percentages aren’t right. I need to adapt the system.”